St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-24


strorms swept over & considerable part Of
western and Southern Missouri, Southeast
ern Kansas and Northern Arkansas Thurs
Gay evening last causing great loss and
destruction to property, as well as manning
a large number of people. In Bates and
vernon counties, Missouri the destruction
was very great. West and south of Rich
Hill the storm ragged with terrific violence.
and Its track is strewn for miles with all
Kinds OF debris, including crushed and
splintered dwellings and outhouses, dead
animals and poultry, bed clothing, wearing
apparel and all kinds of farm property.
The
ESTIMATED LOSS
to property is upwards of 100000. Sig
people were killed in the neighborhood of
the towns OF Hume and Sprague, and a
number seriously and some fatally injured.
Humble station, on the Pacific road. was
destroyed. only one house being left stand
ing. DIR. Smiths house, three miles from
Rlch Hill, was blown to atoms, and Mrs.
Smith fatally injured. Her daughter-in-
law. Mrs. Ryan. and her two children were
also badly hurt. Two hired men on. the
place also received injuries. All the stables
and glanaries on the Bruce place were de-
molshed. AT the Miller farm, three, miles
west OF Sprague's, a splendid residence,
barns and outhouses were destroyed, nine
cattle, number Of hogs and other stock
killed. and Mr. Miller and his wife and
baby.
BLOWN INTO THE WE'LL
and drowned. William Kennels hOuse was
blown down and burned up. Mrs Kennel
had very narrow escape from burning, as
she was pinioned under some timber and
was only rescued by the heroic efforts of
her husband. The Montgomery and Queen
Ridge school houses were wrecked. It is
reported that a brother and sister named
Finn are dead. but this is not verified. The
Methodist Episcopal church at Sprague was
demolished. B. T. Baker & Co.'s lumber
yard was scattered all over the prairie. In
the lower part OF Linn county, Kansas, a
regular funnel-shaped twister made de-
scent seven miles north of Prescott. Every
| farm house in the path of the storm was de-
molished. and every house in Prescott was
| ruined. Four miles from Prescott, Mr..
Flinn's fine residence was mashed fat and
Mrs. Finn and three small childrenmor.
| tally injured and two visitors
| DANGEROUSLY HURT.
| Jacob Brock and wife and one son, Wilh
lam McPold and wife and child, of this
vicinity, were fatally injured. A few miles
from this scene, W. S. Bogart, Mrs. NJ.
Odell, Mr.. Hogan, wife and two children
had taken refuge in storm cellar, when
eight COWS fell on them through the roof
and all were severely hurt. William
Browning Birds family found refuge in a
storm cave while SIS, 600 house was scat
tered over the fields. Ten miles northwest
of Prescott Mrs. Sarah Crane was killed
and her family injured by the crashing Of
the house. In distance of TWENTY-FIVE
miles only one house is known to have
| stood the storm. Fl. G. Trip, of Kansas
| City. was standing in the doorway of Nam
| love Bros grocery store in Prescott when
| the building was destroyed and he was
| killed. The following buildings, left stand
| ing in Prescott, are
STUCK FULL OF TIMBERs.
G. r. Underwood's s residence, the Baptist
| and Methodist churches, W. II. Billingsby's
| harness store, Perkins meat market and the
| Prescott house are among other buildings
| that were destroyed. Nearly every house
| at Miami Junction, five miles north of Pres
colt, was blown down and several persons
| Injured. Seventeen persons are known to
have been killed in Linn county and about
| fifty were seriously wounded. In Jourbon
county, Kansas, the reports are coming in
| slowly of terrible devastation. ID. j. Fields
| farm was swept clean of buildings and live
| stock. Near by, the Mills family was
| nearly eXterminated. two children and the
father and mother being killed, and
| A. Nance and child were found barely
alive, but will recover. The stone resi-
| dence of Samuel Coles was razed to the
ground. In Anderson county the cyclone
| badly damaged the town of Colony. At
Blue Mound, q town of 900 inhabitants,
| twenty houses were wrecked and two per-
| sons were killed. Joseph Duncan's house.
was hurled away in the midst of
A WEDDING CEREMONY.
but the party found refuge in the cellar
F., and escaped injury. A special from Green-
vile, Miss, says that section of country
was visited by terrible thunder storm,
followed by heavy hail that killed live
stock and injured many colored persons in
Bolivar county. The town of Hutchin-
| son was nearly demolished, new hotel,
Robertson's store and dwelling, Wor-
rick's hotel. Renus dwelling Benson's
residence and several negro cabins vera
twrecbed and the debris blown several hun
dred yards from their former site. No one
was injured. The damage will exceed
5000. A dispatch from Hannibal, Mo-,
says that about midnight a terrific storm
unroofed number of buildings and the
rain which followed damaged a great deal
OF merchandise. No persons were in.
iured. Reports from Blossom Prairie,
Tex, says cyclone there yesterday de-
stroyed the dwellings of B. Lansing and
7. NJ. Harraway anu the stores of Brewer
g. Lansing, Thomas Moody 6S Co., 81. l..
Byrne 81 Co., Hancock Sc Byrne, Brant-
leys. T. NJ. Harraway. Norwood & Co.,
Coils gin and planning mill and the hall Of
the Knights of Honor.
NATcHEz, Miss. April ga tornado
swept over the city last evening unroofng
many dwellings and doing much damage.
o1n frn,, Of ftao oifx II IL
stroyed; also the dormitory of the Baptist
college. In Vidalia the Methodist church.
engine house and smaller buildings are
blown down. The damage is great but
there is no loss of life. The telegraph wires
in all directions are down.
THE MISSOURI STORM.
NEVADA, Mo-, April 23.-Additional
particulars from the storm-swept district
shows that over fifteen persons were killed
in the Blue Mound besides the
lives lost in other townships.
The damage reported to property since the
first report is as follows: John Armstrong's
residence in Henry township was blown
down and debris scattered for miles. The
family escaped by taking refuge in cellar.
Mrs. Armstrong was injured. George Kel-
ley's house was demolished, seriously injur-
ing Mrs. Kelly and two children. An old zinc
trunk containing S15O was found three
miles from the Kelly house. Thomas
Marion's residence was destroyed Mr.
Mann's fine twO-story residence was de.
nolished. Clabe Steele's residence and D.
Berry's house were destroyed. Mrs. Frank
Harw0rth was seriously hurt as were also
two of her children. Mrs. John High will
die. Highs child was seriously injured.
Fatally injured.